New Vlog, Life Update, Blogging Thoughts, etc.

Happy Saturday! This weekend’s vlog starts before the work week ends and takes you through the weekend. Maddie tries to go to work with me! So we take her on a little outing later in the weekend. She sees Dexter go to doggie daycare and she wanted to go somewhere. I take Mom to the doctor and out to eat. We talk about what tattoos we might get. And on the weekend I take you around and show you more of George’s retirement projects, plants, projects, garden work, edging, curb appeal, etc. He’s worked so hard. It’s about to get hot though in these parts. Already the heat is on! You can watch the vlog HERE.

Life Update

So apparently I’m a little ill. I’ve not felt great yesterday. I have been a little stuffy nosed the past couple of days. And at night, once again, when turning over to the right, I had the middle ear thing occur where everything starts to go sideways and it feels like you are losing control (you are). Even when it’s dark I can feel it in my eyes and head. I did the maneuver to straighten it out while hanging on the bed post for security and it helped some. Because I am almost the most stubborn person on earth, I specifically made myself sleep on the right hand side to show the dizziness up successfully after doing the maneuver to move my ear crystals back into place. I’m a little unbalanced this morning walking about so I’ve removed anything that requires looking up, bending, or moving around too much from my Saturday to do list.

I also had a low grade fever – just a degree last night. Not enough to go into chills but enough to feel bad. My nose is really stuffy this morning. I may take something actually to remove the congestion from my head so I don’t have the inner ear. I’ve not had sore throat but have noticed I can’t smell much, but my taste is ok, and glands are swollen. And I’m really wiped out. But other than that I think all is good, lol.

I have a demanding list of to do’s’ today but it’s exciting me. I have a chance at getting a few things done today that has been on the list for a while. It would really make me happy to get through with some things.

Blogging

I’m getting an itch to go back to a style of blog that is traditional. I even entertained going back to blogger as it was easy to style and change with the seasons and the mood. However, I pay for this domain and will be continuing to use it and continuing to connect it to all the other social medias, so I’m not going to start a new one. But I will likely change the format back to a traditional blog like structure. I am hoping to find an easier template that will allow easy changes such as color and having updated widgets on the side bar. I miss that. What do you think?

I also plan to remove YOAST SEO as I find it annoying even though it may be a guided tour of how to get more people to your blog, I’d rather just get it rid of it and have a clean self guided “do what I want” way of blogging. I can throw caution to the wind. I will say I had more people coming to the blog before I added YOAST, oddly enough. I just want to go back to simply blogging and people can come and go as they wish. It’s fun to grow the blog as I like the engagement and comments but I don’t like YOAST being in my way and telling me what to do, lol.

Vlogging

Feeling so bad and so tired this week, and therefore kinda burned out as I kept pushing myself, has made me wonder if I need to take a break as my joy and heart has been half in it this week. But I realize I don’t want to do ANYTHING but sit and stare into space, or write, or plan, or think. So I just keep pushing toward my goals and “today’s agenda”. It’s made me wonder if I’m depressed. Or heading into one. But I think I’ve decided that it is just me feeling this way because I’m half way sick. I just don’t feel well. So we’ll play it by ear. I’m happy – other than just not feeling well.

Everyone Else…

George has hurt his knee again and is hobbling. He was fine one day, got up and the next day hobbling again – just overnight. So he is wearing a knee brace.

Mom. It’s been a week since she has had any attention from us. And I told George, I’m afraid to call as she is going to have a list a mile long for us to do. There was already a list we’ve been slow to get to because you know – life. I work FT out of town and cannot be at her beck and call daily – and also will not when I retire either. But I will have some time to do some things. She won’t get all of it. lol. I told George let’s play a game and count all the things she asked us to do. It was 9 I think by the time we got off the phone.

George is hanging Dad’s fiddle tomorrow. He is looking to see what screw he needs for her chair. He’s bringing some nails for hanging pictures she wants hung. She has a list of needs she wants for Lowe’s but that will have to be another Sunday. We already have church, lunch, grocery, and fiddle hanging. She wants some boxes brought in to open from the garage area and she will have that for the next week. She wants me to order her scooter from Walmart. She listed several other things. When it starts it just keeps pouring and keeps going. When in reality she needs to be making some plans for assisted living. We have no plans to be her assisted living staff. And we are not able to keep up two homes. Period. So it is what it is.

My sister finished her cancer treatments up this week from the additional cancer found in a lymph node that metastasized near the other cancer. It did not require as intense of a treatment so she is doing much better. I hope that they got it all. She will continue to have scans more frequently now.

The Texas crew seems to be doing fine. I get pics and videos a lot which makes me feel like I’m not missing out in my grandson’s lives as they continue to grow. Even though I really am. (Insert tears here.)

So I’m going to go and get this day going. And see how far I get. I’ll do some filming today and it may be more video and less talking which I need to do anyway. Ya’ll have a great weekend. What you doing this weekend?

Also if you need the link for the video after reading the blog, here it is again HERE.